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Cathedral Quarry
I was beginning to think someone didn’t want me to visit this place. I only found out about the location shortly before my trip – a set of disused inter-linked quarries for green slate. The site is now...
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Castlerigg
The Satnav and I fell out again. It was now late afternoon and I was on my way back from Cathedral Quarry. There was no rush, but I had stopped to chat to one of the locals in Little Langdale and I...
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Buttermere – the misty end
It was probably a blessing in disguise that I left Castlerigg at sunrise. It had been a cold night and as I drove out of Keswick, I could see plenty of mist in the valleys. Although I had really hoped...
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Buttermere – the other end
Perhaps I should have called this “Buttermere – the end with the famous tree”. Having seen a photograph of a lone tree somewhere on the shore of the lake, I couldn’t get it out of my head. I wanted to...
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Otter at Ullswater
Of course, I wish I really had been able to photograph an otter at this stunning location. The truth is that it really was there, just like the red squirrel I spotted on the shore of Buttermere the day...
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Derwentwater
So… it was the last morning of my stay in the Lake District and the wheels finally seemed to be coming off my bus. I had already taken a couple of stunning images at the famous Ullswater boathouse (due...
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Warnscale Bothy
Honister pass has been in the news recently, having set the UK 24 hour rainfall record of 341.4 mm on 5th December 2015. Hard to believe that just over two months earlier, I was there in brilliant...
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Curbar light
It’s funny how your brain works. No… perhaps I should rephrase that. It’s certainly funny how MY brain works as it took a car crash for me to remember a wonderful evening in the Peak District a few...
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Winskill
Thinking about it now, no person in their right mind would take a short break in Yorkshire in late October, but I did. This was the first of what has become my yearly five-day trip away with the...
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Seven minutes
It’s an odd title for a post, especially one of an English landscape. I called it seven minutes because that’s how long the sun appeared for as I photographed this field of lavender. It took me a total...
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Birling Gap to Beachy Head
My husband was on leave from work the other week, so I took the opportunity to get him out for a bit. With an old house on two and a half acres of land, there is always something that needs doing...
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Ring of bright water at Capel Curig
A very dear friend asked me the other day if I had a good time in North Wales. Of course, I should have answered “yes” straight away, but I had to think about it. The truth was that too much time and...
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Just a lay-by
While I was scouting for locations in Snowdonia, I found one that took my fancy and it was only a few minutes drive from Capel Curig, where I had photographed wild otters. A lovely gentleman had...
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Goodbye to Snowdonia
It was the middle morning of my trip to Wales and the day I had been looking forward to for so long. I had planned another early start – this time to find the lone tree at the Padarn Country Park. Just...
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Ynys Llanddwyn – the magical island
Technically, Ynys Llanddwyn is a narrow finger of land situated at the far end of a beach near Newborough Warren, on Anglesey. It only becomes an island during the highest of tides. Having seen a...
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Talacre lighthouse
This was the day that I had been looking forward to and dreading in equal measure. After five years of trips away with the camera alone, I was spending part of the day with two guys from my photography...
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South Stack sunset
It was my last evening in North Wales and I was running out of time. I had just bid farewell to the two guys from my photography forum who had joined me for most of the day and I was heading for the...
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Annapurna trek
I should never have gone to Nepal. I was originally booked on a trip to Northern Pakistan, but just a couple of weeks before it was due to start, someone from the tour operator rang to say it had been...
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Freezing fog
I spent the morning with a very dear friend the other day. We had done a couple of walks last summer, but then I was laid low with a cough, that was eventually diagnosed as asthma. It took some time to...
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Derwentwater
So… it was the last morning of my stay in the Lake District and the wheels finally seemed to be coming off my bus. I had already taken a couple of stunning images at the famous Ullswater boathouse (due...
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